A cold war between the US and China may well follow this pandemic

Editorial: Though he has not quite said as much publicly, Mr Trump seems to be working himself up to presenting China with a ‘bill’ for Covid-19 damages. That is something the Chinese will never agree to

Whether Donald Trump’s statements about China’s culpability for the coronavirus pandemic are true or not – and there is no compelling public evidence so far – the fact that the president believes such a thing is significant in itself. Indeed, even by his own blustery standards, there seems a genuine anger in the president’s voice when he states that he has seen intelligence assessments that indicate that the virus somehow came out of a laboratory in Wuhan.